“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”

My understanding of my queerness has evolved significantly since the first lesbian brides appeared on Say Yes to the Dress.

“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under the eyes of a cloudy sun, hold hands with a woman on a rain-less night intoxicated by wine and wishfulness. I lie to a taxi driver, tell him that I have a fiancé. I show him a picture, a man. My cousin doesn’t know how often his image has saved me from lecherous men. Here, fiction can be a raft in a sea…”

“I call it paying it forward. Because that’s what drag queens did for me at a young age. That’s what drag queens have done for me all throughout my life.”

This list has queer women testing their physical limits, queer men confronting their toxic masculinity, and even a few cute and sporty gay romances.

Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.

For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.

Keke Palmer and Javicia Leslie in X-Men cosplay, Glee is going to haunt us until the day we die, and Apex Legends is adding a trans woman character.

“I’m sorry I cannot get over the fact that the whole world is talking about lesbian legend Syd Colson today!”

Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.

Plus updates on All American, All American: Homecoming, Harlem, Truth Be Told, The Legend of Vox Machina, and Criminal Minds!

Celebrity crushes mean more to queer people than they do to straight people. They can be our first expressions of queer desire or our first expressions of gender envy. They can be a safe place to try out urges that aren’t ready for the real world.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love comes to an end after wreaking havoc on all our gay lives for three short but dizzying weeks.

The new Anna Nicole Smith documentary “You Don’t Know Me” features Anna’s ex-girlfriend as one of its primary sources, adding her story to an abundant but rarely discussed aspect of Anna’s life — her bisexuality.

Even though I believe in complete body liberation and fat freedom, I don’t like to talk about my “I’ve been fat my whole life” baggage.

Plus updates on Class of 09, How I Met Your Father, and the season finale of Saint X!

Join me on this wet ride to Horny Jail.

A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.

“Women in the 1940s were conservative and respectful. This series tried to make them into whores and lesbians!”

“If the flannel fits…”